WORLD RADIO TESTS
SIGNALS FROM DAVENTRY LISTENING FOR THE ECHO LONDON, May 00 Following five minutes of gramophone music, to enable listeners to adjust receivers, the Morse alphabet will be sent out letter by letter from 9.30 to 9.55 in the morning in connection with world-wide wireless listening tests from the Empire station at Daventry. Observers will listen between the signals for an echo from a cosmic blanket millions of miles distant and will report results to Mr. E. V. Appleton, a member of the Radio Research Board.
The experiments will continue on Tuesdavs, Thursdays and Sundays until a world-wide record has been compiled.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21806, 22 May 1934, Page 9
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104WORLD RADIO TESTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21806, 22 May 1934, Page 9
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